The Palestine Post - "State of Israel is Born"

Estimate

$2,000–$3,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

printer

16th May

Place

Jerusalem

Publication

1948

summary

This historic issue of The Palestine Post (later to change its name to The Jerusalem Post) announces that Medinat Yisrael" [the State of Israel] was proclaimed “on Friday at midnight by Mr. David Ben Gurion, until then Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive and now head of the State's Provisional Council of Government." Other front page headlines in the newspaper include: "U.S. Recognizes Jewish State;" "Egyptian Air Force Spitfires Bomb Tel Aviv;" "Etzion Settlers Taken P.O.W;" and finally, "Sir Alan [Cunningham, British High Commissioner] Sails from Palestine."

pp.2. Yellow, creased. Folio

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